Lando Norris heads into the Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend with a comfortable buffer in his pursuit of a first F1 drivers’ championship.<\/p>\n
The Briton leads Oscar Piastri by 24 points in the standings with only three rounds left to run. However, it is not yet a squarely intra-McLaren affair as Max Verstappen is still in distant contention at 49 points adrift.<\/p>\n
Braced for a tough weekend in Sin City, with cool temperatures not suiting the MCL39, the team-mates will quickly want to get in their groove at the low-grip Las Vegas Strip Circuit.<\/p>\n
Mercedes dominated the event 12 months ago, with George Russell leading home Lewis Hamilton for a one-two finish. Will the Brackley-based squad be able to replicate that form this year?<\/p>\n
Team principal Toto Wolff has been coy in the run-up to the weekend, with Ferrari and the Red Bull of Max Verstappen also likely to play their parts.<\/p>\n
The Dutch driver claimed his fourth title in Nevada last season, and whilst he cannot repeat that this term, he will be hoping for a strong round to keep his hopes of a fifth consecutive crown alive.<\/p>\n
Follow along to the RacingNews365 live coverage of the first free practice from the Las Vegas Grand Prix below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris heads into the Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend with a comfortable buffer in his pursuit of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-298392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}